Fritt Ord, NF Kino, Youth Strike for Climate, YMCA/YWCA, Spire, Nature and Youth, Changemaker, Eco-Agents, Differ Media and Tour de Force invites the public to a preview screening of the documentary film on Greta Thunberg.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of grants has been updated, adding grants in response to ordinary project applications for more than NOK 100 000, Norwegian Journalism and additional grants in September 2020.
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Oslo, 23 October 2020
The Fritt Ord Foundation has engaged Hilde Gunn Slottemo (52), a professor of History, to pen the history of the Foundation’s first 50 years.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of allocations has been updated to include grants in response to ordinary project applications for less than NOK 100 000, Norwegian Journalism and additional grants in September 2020.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s project “Islam in Norway” hosted an open panel discussion at the House of Literature on Tuesday 20 October 2020. The event was also streamed live.
Fritt Ord, Isme Film and Oslo Documentary Cinema hosted the Oslo premiere of the documentary film “The Art of Fallism” and a subsequent discussion about decolonisation in a Norwegian context, on Monday 19 October 2020, at Vega Scene, Oslo.
“The Fritt Ord Journalism Fellowship” at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford for the period January – July 2021 has been awarded to Tor Kjetil Kristoffersen, news editor at Finnmark Dagblad.
Fritt Ord, Isme Film and Oslo Documentary Cinema invite the public to the Oslo premiere of the documentary film “The Art of Fallism” and to a discussion about decolonisation in a Norwegian context.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s project “Islam in Norway” invites the public to an open panel discussion at the House of Literature. The event will also be streamed live.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of grants has been updated to include allocations in response to applications for major regular grants and additional grants in August 2020.
Sixteen young people have now been chosen to participate in the Young People’s Freedom of Expression Council. They will meet over the next year to survey the status of freedom of expression in their own age group, and to make specific suggestions for how to get more young people engaged in the public debate.
The Fritt Ord Foundation’s list of grants has been updated to include allocations in response to applications for major grants for Norwegian Journalism in August 2020.
Fritt Ord invites schools to address the topic of 22 July, and to submit entries for the Fritt Ord Foundation Competition for Upper Secondary School.
The Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg, are this year honouring three Eastern European media entities, a photo journalist, and a print journalist with the Free Media Awards 2020 – supporting independent journalism in Eastern Europe.
Based on his new book “Decolonising the Camera” and his work with many different historical photo libraries including Magnum Archive, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy uses photography to advocate for the under-represented.
This week, the documentary film “Do not split” about the protests in Hong Kong in 2019 won the jury’s special prize for AFI Docs, the American Film Institute’s documentary film festival.